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IEEE Spectrum
October 2007
Morgen E. Peck |
Deep-Brain Stimulators for Parkinson's Disease Increase Impulsive Decision Making Electronic brain implants make it harder to decide what's better than good.   |
Science News
Nathan Seppa |
Book Review: Deep Brain Stimulation: A New Treatment Shows Promise In The Most Difficult Cases By Jamie Talan / Science News Jamie Talan describes brain surgery aimed at addressing movement disorders and zeros in on deep-brain stimulation, a cutting-edge treatment in which doctors implant electrodes. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2006
Samuel K. Moore |
Psychiatry's Shocking New Tools Electronic implants and electromagnetic pulses are picking up where psychoactive drugs have failed. |
Chemistry World
July 25, 2012
Nina Notman |
Tracking Chemical Changes in the Brain New insight into how deep brain stimulation works could improve treatments for neurological diseases. |
Bio-IT World
July 2005 |
DBS Model Full color illustrations of a deep brain stimulation system using a pulse generator in the chest and four electrodes in the brain. |
Wired
March 2007
Steven Gulie |
A Shock to the System To slow the progress of Parkinson's disease, doctors planted electrodes deep in my brain. Then they turned on the juice. |
Scientific American
May 2009
Gary Stix |
A Sex Chip? Targeting the Brain's Pleasure Center with Electrodes Could growing clinical use of brain electrodes lead to a chip for sexual stimulation? |
BusinessWeek
March 7, 2005
Michael Arndt |
"Pacemakers" for the Rest of You Slews of tiny devices that deliver electrical stimulation to a wide variety of organs should soon become available. |
Managed Care
September 2005
Thomas Morrow |
Dual-Treatment Approach to Parkinson's Disease The treatment of Parkinson's disease is complicated. Patients may benefit from a dual approach that uses medical therapy with new innovative treatment systems. |
BusinessWeek
March 7, 2005
Michael Arndt |
Rewiring The Body First came pacemakers. Now exotic implants are bringing new hope to victims of epilepsy, paralysis, depression, and other diseases. And some of the biggest names in health care are in a scramble to get into the market. |
IEEE Spectrum
October 2007
Morgen E. Peck |
Researchers Testing New Electric Treatment for Migraines A small DC current through the skull seems to interrupt the headaches and may even prevent them |
The Motley Fool
July 12, 2011
Arundhati Parmar |
FDA Allows Expansion of St. Jude Study to Treat Severe Depression St. Jude moves forward with treatment for depression. |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2008
Morgen E. Peck |
Scheme to Let Robot Take Over Brain-Computer Interface MEMS-based system could position electrodes in brain tissue to improve neural prosthetics. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2012
Samuel K. Moore |
Electromagnetic Depression Treatment Nears Approval Deep transcranial magnetic stimulation adds to psychiatry's arsenal of electronic remedies |
Chemistry World
October 6, 2015
Tim Wogan |
Rolled-up electrodes record brain activity without scarring Ultra-flexible neural electrodes have been created that can more precisely measure brain activity without causing tissue scarring. |
BusinessWeek
July 5, 2004 |
The Heart Is Just the Start CEO Art Collins explains how Medtronics is moving into treating spinal injuries, neurological disorders, diabetes, and more. |
Wired
September 2006
Gary Greenberg |
Back From the Dead A small but passionate group of doctors say that electricity applied deep in the brain can jolt patients out of irreversible comas. That's when the real problems begin. |
PC Magazine
November 29, 2006 |
Brain Chip University of Washington researchers have demonstrated an implantable device in live animals that can record signals from one part of the brain and send the impulses to a different part of the brain. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
November 1, 2013
Ben Comer |
Top Medical Innovations for 2014 At the conclusion of the Cleveland Clinic's Medical Innovations Summit each year, 10 innovative technologies are unveiled before the audience, and designated as new and revolutionary tools for the treatment of disease and disability. |
IEEE Spectrum
October 2005
Willie D. Jones |
Fiber to the Brain Nanotech researchers have devised a method for attaching electrodes to small clusters of brain cells -- or even individual neurons -- using the cardiovascular system as the conduit through which wires are threaded. |
The Motley Fool
April 27, 2011
Arundhati Parmar |
Medtronic and Eli Lilly Join Hands to Combat Parkinson's Disease The partnership aims to research and develop a new approach to treating the debilitating disease. |
BusinessWeek
March 7, 2005 |
Dr. Oesterle's Stimulating Work Medtronic's chief medical officer, Dr. Stephen N. Oesterle, discusses the progress and potential of using "implanted pulse generators" to treat chronic ailments. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2012
Jose M. Carmena |
How to Control a Prosthesis With Your Mind New brain-machine interfaces that exploit the plasticity of the brain may allow people to control prosthetic devices in a natural way. |
Wired
August 2001
Jennifer Kahn |
Let's Make Your Head Interactive The Human Brain Project is combining wet anatomy with next-gen scanning, imaging, and networking to give neuroscience a revolutionary new tool -- the globally accessible online mind... |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2009
Prachi Patel |
Laser Probes for Brain Experiments Laser-activated probes stimulate brain cells better, say scientists |
IEEE Spectrum
October 2008
Willie D. Jones |
New Brain-Machine Interface Reactivates Monkey's Paralyzed Muscles A monkey learned to use the output of just one brain cell to move its wrist |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2005
Samuel K. Moore |
Zapping Away The Blues Cyberonics Inc. plans to introduce the first implanted device that can treat a psychiatric illness. |
Popular Mechanics
May 2006
Logan Ward |
Your Upgrade Is Ready Evolution has done its best, but there's a limit to our bodies capabilities. Wanna be Superman? Better call the engineers. |
Chemistry World
October 26, 2011
Kate McAlpine |
Dismissing gatekeepers for enhanced nerve control US researchers have invented a better way to stimulate or block nerve impulses by coating an electrode with a membrane that can control the local concentration of ions. |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2011
Corinna Wu |
Mouse Cam Tracking techniques offer a long-term view into the mouse brain. |
Chemistry World
June 2011 |
Breaking through the barrier Getting drug molecules into the brain means crossing the defensive blood-brain barrier. Anthony King investigates how chemists are infiltrating the brain's fortress |
Wired
August 2001
John Hockenberry |
The Next Brainiacs If puppetry is the clever mapping of human characteristics onto a nonhuman object, then disability is the same mapping onto a still-human object. Getting good at being disabled is like discovering an alternative platform. Science is bringing us closer to becoming puppet masters... |
AskMen.com
Jacob Franek |
Future Cures Almost every disease known to man is under constant research and we can hardly go a day without hearing about some advancement or another. Here are a few diseases for which future cures could be looming on the horizon. |
IEEE Spectrum
April 2008
Sally Adee |
Mastering the Brain-Computer Interface Engineers are learning to translate between the neural signals of the brain and the machine language of a prosthetic arm. |
IEEE Spectrum
August 2012
Steve Furber |
Low-Power Chips to Model a Billion Neurons A miniature, massively parallel computer, powered by a million ARM processors, could produce the best brain simulations yet |
Wired
July 24, 2007
Melinda Wenner |
A Few Transcranial Zaps and You're a Happy Genius A new technique called transcranial magnetic stimulation may let neuroscientists listen to the conversations between cells in your brain. |
IEEE Spectrum
August 2008
Morgen E. Peck |
Brain-wave Test Challenges Vegetative-State Diagnosis Tests using an EEG have shown unexpected cortical functioning in vegetative patients. |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2011
Sarah C.P. Williams |
Nourishing Neural Stem Cells with CSF Inside your skull, your brain is floating in a clear liquid. This liquor cerebrospinalis, or cerebrospinal fluid, until recently was considered simply cushioning for the brain. |
Popular Mechanics
June 2008
Elizabeth Svoboda |
10 High-Tech Health Breakthroughs Coming Soon to Your Body Scientists reveal their research on future medical technology devices and alternative medicine delivery systems. |
Science News
June 18, 2005 |
Brain Aneurysms This Web site, maintained by the Brain Aneurysm Foundation, offers information on treatment options, recovery, support groups, and upcoming seminars for patients and family members with the condition. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009
Virginia Hughes |
A New Approach to Predicting Epileptic Seizures Torrents of data produced by implanted microelectrodes could finally yield a prediction system |
Chemistry World
September 5, 2013
Emma Stoye |
Raman-based imaging takes guesswork out of brain surgery A new technique that color-codes cancerous and healthy brain cells according to their chemistry could help surgeons remove all traces of brain tumors while minimizing damage to sensitive tissues. |
The Motley Fool
April 27, 2011
Brian Orelli |
Don't Get Pumped Up About Pumping It In Medtronic and Eli Lilly team up against Parkinson's. |
Managed Care
May 2005 |
Microcircuit Devices Deliver Considerable Relief From Chronic Pain Recent advances in pain relief revolve around longer-lasting implantable devices. Can managed care afford not to have a pain management strategy? |
Bio-IT World
January 21, 2005
Kevin Davies |
Allen Brain Institute Debuts 'Google for Gene Activity' The Allen Institute for Brain Science has released its first set of gene-expression data in the brain for nearly 2,000 mouse genes. The data will have important relevance for the study of brain function, disease, and the role of genes in governing human behavior. |
Wired
March 23, 2009
Jonah Lehrer |
Scientists Map the Brain, Gene by Gene I'm in the dissection room of the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle, and the scientist next to me is in a hurry. |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2011
Madeline Drexler |
Mark Bear: Charting New Waters Bear has applied his discoveries in brain plasticity to understanding fragile X syndrome, an inherited form of mental impairment. |
Popular Mechanics
September 4, 2009
Erik Sofge |
Hollywood Reality Check: The Real Science of Brain Puppetry Daryl Kipke, director of the Center for Neural Communication Technology at the University of Michigan, sees neural interface technology keeping pace with robotics, with each field bootstrapping the other |
American Family Physician
December 15, 2006 |
Parkinson's Disease: What You Should Know What is Parkinson's disease?... How can I tell if I have Parkinson's disease?... How will my doctor know if I have it?... How is Parkinson's disease treated?... etc. |
Chemistry World
August 3, 2010
Lewis Brindley |
Nanoparticles and ultrasound team up to treat tumors A new, non-invasive method to deliver drugs to the brain has been developed by Taiwanese researchers. |
